I asked a Ruger rep that question at the Grand one year. He said that the trap market was so small, that it didn't make good business sense to develop, and market a trap gun. The one they did make was done as a favor to a long term employee.

Marketing a trap gun in the small, but crowded trap gun market would present any gunmaker a problem...how many times have you read posters on this forum voice concerns about SKBs and Cesar Guerinis not holding up? Best regards, Ed

Flincher100; There was a double rifle made on the Red Label receiver. I saw one at a gunshop in Anchorage, Alaska some years ago. Seem like a local gunsmith did them and his work was excellent. Was either 30:06 or 45-70. Beautiful gun.

flincher100, double rifle shooters shoot no where near as many targets as trapshooters do. So a Ruger double rifle will hold together for that limited amount of shooting. A shooting buddy started shooting trap with his Red Label with a Gracoil installed. It beat him so bad he moved it to the back of his safe behind a dozen shotguns to that he won't even see it. It had beaten a sore on his face. He stopped shooting it and it healed. He wanted to buy a Ruger Trap gun. The seller let him shoot it. It beat the sore back open. He have it back and it's been for sale for about a year and it's still for sale.

Its not an issue where the reciever isnt strong enough to withstand. Its all other working parts. Ruger parts are stamped, not machined, (save ejectors). Triggers are sloppy, not clean. When all these stamped parts start to wear in, problems begin...All fixable...Ruger stands behind the gun...Just aggrivation. I have a 20ga field gun that is as good a quail gun as I have ever owned. Light, quick and shoots great. Todd

The question was "Why is Ruger not a player in the trap market?" KS user is correct Ruger did make a single barrel trap for a very short time. Why they stopped ??? The answer will have to come from Ruger.

It is kind of a shame the price wasn't bad and would have given the low end market a decent single at a decent price(under $3000)but Ruger just pulled it from the market with out a reasonable explaination IMO.

A friend of a friend was a Ruger executive during the development of the Ruger
trap gun. He sent me a demo gun to shoot for a few months. The gun worked well, and had all the adjustments that trapshooters want. I thought it shot
very soft once it was adjusted for me. Like the Red Label, it was loose out
of the box. It's just the way Ruger builds guns.

We sold about six of them, all in the 200-300 serial number range. I was told that the run would be 500 units, and I think that's about what was produced.